I’ll never understand how people can look at what happens to a place when you seed it with thousands/millions of landmines and still think “hey that’s a good idea, let’s do that!”

Just plant a bunch of hidden murder traps and dust off your hands, no need to think of the next generation(s)! And don’t even worry about having a plan to ensure the eventual safe disarming and disposal of these fields of bombs, that’s someone else’s problem!

I’m always reminded that CBC was including a graph of Israeli & Palestinian deaths after October 7 in their reporting on Gaza. They quietly stopped including it when Palestinian deaths dwarfed Israeli deaths and made it clear that Israel was killing indiscriminately

They definitely had a human zoo at the International Colonial and Export Exhibition in 1883, and possibly as late as 1928 but those sources are all in dutch

I always read it as Gisnep but with a backwards G

They’re doing this shit where I live too, except it’s making sure you’re exposed to the elements as much as possible as a way of “discouraging” people from using transit stops for shelter. They didn’t want people using them as shelters from our brutal winters so they made sure no one can stay warm while they wait, problem solved!